Pedagogical Agents for Teacher Intervention in Educational Robotics Classes: Implementation Issues

Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students´ or even small groups´ progress in a class of 30-40 students. A multi-agent environment to help teachers with this problem is based on having pedagogical agents to monitor students´ interaction, robots´ movements, and the construction and programming process of robots. Mobile interaction agents move in local area network delivering other agents´ observations to teacher´s visualization agent. The implemented prototype system has revealed the strengths and the weakness of the proposed architecture.